Based on the reading assignment this week, it wasn’t hard to notice how much insensitive language is used on television alone, even the news. I was watching the evening news yesterday and they mentioned how a black man and a Hispanic woman had abducted a man. I don’t know if this would be considered insensitive language. It did make me think of whether it was necessary for them to mention their race at that point. It was not like they were giving a description of the suspects to the public, otherwise they should have also mentioned their approximate heights, ages, what they were driving, etc. Some may have interpreted the reporter as implying that black and Hispanic people are more likely to engage in criminal behavior like that.
The other thing I noticed was how some of those on television seem to have different rules. Kenny already mentioned in his blog Tosh.0, which is a show on Comedy Central featuring comedian Daniel Tosh. I think if you watched a few full episodes of him you would easily find –isms in all of them and maybe all of the –isms that we have talked about this week. Of course, he is on Comedy Central, so he can probably get away with a lot more than a broadcast or newspaper journalist.
A simple editing mistake I found this week from the Standard-Examiner: “That one, is seems, has everyone voicing some sort of an opinion.” I caught this one very easily, not sure what the editor saw. The sentence is very awkward to read as it should have the word “it” in place of “is”.
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